review 1: Okay, this is a good book. Not a great book but a good book, better than average. This book has a plot as straight as a West Texas highway, lovely dark humor, and well, a few plot holes. This is a police procedural with the spice being in the crime scene unit techs - they are ref...

review 1: "Tome," is the word. At slightly over 800 pages, this book is massive enough to warp gravity. Drop it, and seismographs around the globe will spike. Collects not just the original comics, but also the various crossovers with The Authority and so on that were published as one s...

review 1: Highly stylized, supernatural, vigilante justice from a street-level anti-hero. It's like Batman mixed with Spawn but much, much better than that comparison suggests. I like the pencils. I like the coloring even more. Each issue is a one off story told economically and often uniq...

review 1: Excellent and original idea concerning an alternate history arms race to create superhuman beings - This does not end well! If I have an issue with this I'd say that it moves so fast that it's over almost as soon as it begins and I'd have enjoyed reading a much longer and more in...

review 1: I'm not sure how this hasn't got past the development stage of a TV series. The first 12 episodes have already been written even. They could be lifted as is from the graphic novel. That's how good this series is. This is Warren Ellis at his best.The premise of the series is s...

review 1: Re-read. Major plot spoilers occur...Aetheric Mechanics is a short black and white comic (called a graphic novella) with nicely detailed art and I'd consider it to be a modern day steam-punk Sherlock Holmes concept used with derivatives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original cast. ...

review 1: Think back to all those pulp WWII paintings of smiling girls on the sides of airplanes. Now create an alternate timeline where we went into space, fought worlds on other planets, and met new alien races. Now make those smiling girls into just one badass space chick who has flow...

review 1: Hmmmm...on a frame-by-frame basis, this instalment of the Marvelverse was awesome. I loved the artwork in most of the short stories (the facial expressions during several of the fight scenes really pulled me in), and the interactions between characters had all the snark and bant...

review 1: Fun book. More light hearted than my typical tastes, but enjoyable. Might be a little low brow for some. I enjoy a good poop or dick joke so I was amused. Warren seemed to be having a good time writing it. Ellis uses parodies of existing characters and familiar backdrops to ...

review 1: It's been a few years since I read Planetary and haven't read it all since it finished. I was trying to collect the out of print Absolutes, so I was excited when DC announced this collection. Not only is all 27 issues in the book, but all 3 crossover issues (one of which is the B...

review 1: A lot of s#!t just got real in this one. I can finally say that I really like where things are going. As in, I'm sure they're going somewhere for more reasons than just, "Oh, but it's Warren Ellis!"I can also say that thanks to Duffield's incredible panels, I think I love Luke. I...

review 1: Reprints Planetary #19-27 (May 2004-December 2009). The war between the Four and Planetary is officially on and Elijah Snow is taking no chances. His goal is to break-up and separate the Four for individual defeat and to use the Four’s knowledge to save the Earth. The source o...

review 1: "23 years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment.6 years ago, the world ended.This is the story of what happened next."So begins the story of the FreakAngels, a group of dysfunctional young adults who, in the wake of an unnamed catastrophe, g...

review 1: There's a bit more going on in this volume of FreakAngels than in the previous, expositiony volume. This doesn't affect my enjoyment of it, much. I really liked the first volume for the setting, the characters, and dialog, and also for the beautiful, haunting panels of a flooded ...

review 1: An absolutely standout achievement. This is some of Ellis' very best work, and between him and Shalvey's gob-slapping artwork, a volume I can't recommend enough. Simplicity is the game this collection plays. Whereas most books are itching to start establishing some huge overarchi...

review 1: Excellent surprise. I hadn't even heard of this, and having recently read all of Planetary, I've been eager for more of Ellis at his best. Though Ellis and Garth Ennis often get lumped in with the more dubious Mark Millar, much of their work has for more resonance and in between ...

review 1: I loved the heck out of this one. Essentially, the X-men figure out that a mysterious figure has been gathering resources over the past several decades, and is intent on wiping the remaining 198 mutants off the face of the earth. The build-up is a pretty typical superhero story,...

review 1: Birthday TPB #1- Another one of Warren Ellis' great genre deconstructions. This time it's Golden Age serials like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. After great adventure in the cosmos, Earth's space heroes bring intergalactic war into World War II. The world suffers greatly and then ...

review 1: Enjoyable and ridiculous cross-dimensional secret war crime case for the X-Men. For me, the best bit is all the alternative endings, where in multiple other universes the X-Men fail to save the day and everyone ends up dead. It gets to have its cake and eat it. Also, I like anyth...

review 1: Possibly not my favourite story arc so far (I guess I'll always have a special fancy for the first volume); although it may just be that this is the first one I read as it was posted online week by week, rather than in huge breathless chunks.In notice 3 Ellis had written "we���re...

review 1: I heard it put that Warren Ellis's writing is like 70s prog rock and I think that is an apt description. It takes some time to get there, but if you stick with it and you're in the right mindset you'll end up enjoying it.I'm enjoying FreakAngles mostly due to the strong art and ...

review 1: A friend who works in a comic book store gave me this series to read back in 2006, I think. I loved them. It might have been some of my first exposure to Warren Ellis. Back before I was a fan of his who specifically hunts down anything new he writes.I read the first book, and the...

review 1: A surprising, different end for what will ultimately end up being one of my favorite comic runs. The tone and idea of the story takes a decisive turn in this trade, which was ultimately necessary but still kind of strange given the more whimsical nature of some of the earlier st...

review 1: I loved this graphic. The art work is amazing and the storyline is intense without being hard to follow. I did just about lay an egg when my ten year old picked it up and started reading it. It is definitely intended for mature audiences. There are a few things in this story ...

review 1: 12 babies were born at the same time 23 years ago. The world ended 6 years ago. This is the story of what happened next.Warren Ellis is a writer able to write one great series after another and despite having read his work for years, for whatever reason "Freakangels" never occurr...

review 1: Doktor Sleepless, the latest ongoing series by Warren Ellis, offers some society criticism in the spirit of his earlier masterpiece, Transmetropolitan. Doktor Sleepless is a bit darker and not quite as rant-filled as Transmet but it hits almost as hard.The main character is a man...

review 1: 3 1/2 starsThis short novella was a great introduction to an author I know nothing about. In fact I was so taken with it, as soon as I finished reading I also got Crooked little veins, the author’s debut novel.This is the story of Mr Sun, a meticulously professional assassin. I...

review 1: “Ten years since we learned that there is intelligent life in the universe but that they did not recognise us as intelligent or alive”Giant alien tubes, or “trees”, have been planted across the globe. They spew noxious green ooze, poisoning cities and melting people, and the pres...

review 1: My friend Justin brought this one to my attention and I ama fan of comics about wacko people and Marc Spector is just that. A 'hero' with multiple personalities who fights in all white (must go through a lot of bleach!). The first issue is about serial killing and Mr. Spector is ...